6. "Let a thousand flowers bloom". Try everything we can think of (that doesn't involve killing people). Fund them, then evaluate them after a year or two, weed out the ones that don't work, expand the ones that do.
Oh.. that's good... really good... Do I really need to respond to this inane concept?
Shower Tojo, Hitler, and Stalin with love.....
I can really see that approach winning them over...
Lemmee ask you something... If any of those tyrants had possessed nuclear weapons unilaterally, with no similar US capability, just how much "love" do you think they would have shown us?
7. Take the money we are spending on preventive war (75B$ just for Iraq, just this year, and the total cost will probably be much higher), and spend it on things that separate the guerrillas (Al Queda, Islamic Jihad, Hamas, Hezbollah, etc.) from their civilian base of support. All those run social service organizations, that provide schools, hospitals, food, to Muslims. Then they use those organizations, as a cover for propaganda and recruitment and financing. We need to shut them down, by providing an alternative. Shutting them down, without providing an alternative, will just create more despair and anger against us.
Finally something I can agree with, except that you're putting the cart before the horse. To do what you're advocating, we'd have to be PERMITTED by the tyranny in charge, to distribute those resources properly. Or, as in the case, of many middle eastern nations, insure the funds were used as specified..
Most governments won't permit the US to engage in activities that subvert the authority/legitimacy of the ruling government, such as independently providing the social services you refer to. They want to control how those funds are spent... That is, after they've taken their share of the money for their palaces, yachts, and fast cars.
To ensure that such funding is properly distributed, it must occur outside of the ruling regime, or with direct oversight and accountability to the providers of that aid.
I'm a big believer in humanitarian and development aid. But I frown upon implementing such programs when corruption funnels the majority of it away. |
